October 10th, 2014

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Extinct animals

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11:59 pm

Mentioning Prehistoric Park has given me an idea for some fanfic, but it needs a land animal that went extinct say 5000-10000 years ago, somewhere with a hot or desert climate, and would be interesting enough for a time-travelling zoo to want some. Any suggestions?

I think my favourite would be the Glyptodon (there's a good example at the Natural History Museum). Hot climate - South and Central America - but not desert; thought to be wet grassland. Very striking visually though.

Interesting little snippet about the Glyptodon is that they're always found upside down. This is part of the identification of their habitat - it's thought that when they died, they floated in the water before getting stuck somewhere and buried. Don't know if that could be worked into anything.

Poor buggers, must have been a pain lugging all that armour around. Afraid I'm probably going to go with dire wolves though, they're a better fit to the story I want to tell. Although if their habitat overlapped that would work well, I could have both.